Salvador Dinosaur (SD) are a Melbourne based partnership, Clare Bartholomew and Daniel Tobias, who have been creating their own irreverent brand of award-winning theatre and comedy-cabaret together, since 2006.
Based in Melbourne, SD have created numerous works which have toured extensively around Australia to capital cities, regional towns, major arts festivals, as well as 23 international tours to Canada, USA, Germany, Belgium, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Hungary, UK and New Zealand.
As Otto & Astrid from the band Die Roten Punkte, they have created and produced four full-length comedy theatre shows as well as playing large scale music festivals and opening for punk cabaret goddess Amanda Palmer in the USA, Europe and Australia. They have created many music videos featuring Otto & Astrid as well as a very popular thirteen-part web series watched by over 500,00 viewers.
In 2015, SD premiered The Orchid and the Crow, Daniel’s autobiographical solo comedy about an atheist surviving cancer by finding God in Lance Armstrong. In 2015 SD partnered with Arena Theatre Company creating a new children’s musical, Sunny Ray and the Magnificent Moon, which premiered at The Sydney Festival in January 2016 and has toured regionally in Victoria, around Australia, to four arts festivals in New Zealand and was showcased at Assijet, Shanghai, 2018.
Their works have been nominated for 13 Greenroom Awards in Melbourne, winning Best Production twice for Die Roten Punkte and Best Writing for The Orchid and the Crow, winner of Best Comedy in Victoria, Best Solo and Most Outstanding show in Ottawa, Most Outstanding show for Die Roten Punkte and Best Solo Performer at the London Fringe, nominated for a Time Out & Soho Theatre Award and a Total Theatre Award in Edinburgh, amongst many other awards.
